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Connie Ballmer is an American philanthropist. She is the wife of former Microsoft CEO and billionaire Steve Ballmer. The Ballmers are major donors to Democratic politicians and left-progressive causes. Philanthropy In 2015, Connie and Steve Ballmer created the Ballmer Group. The Ballmer Group is a philanthropic fund that
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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the Executive Office of the President. Nominations and Appointments Jen O’Malley Dillon is White House Deputy Chief of Staff. She was Campaign Manger for Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, and prior to that for Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign. She was a
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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Nominations and Appointments Wally Adeyemo is Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. He had served most recently as President of the Obama Foundation since August 2019. Before that, he was a Senior
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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Energy. Nominations and Appointments Shalanda H. Baker is Director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she had previously served as Deputy Director for Energy Justice. Prior
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Dan Gilbert is an American billionaire investor and businessman. He is the founder of Quicken Loans, now called Rocket Companies, which is the largest home mortgage lending firm in the United States. He is also the majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. As of August 2021, Gilbert had
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The Gilbert Family Foundation is a philanthropic organization that primarily invests in projects intended to benefit the population and government of Detroit, Michigan. It also funds research in medical fields such as gene therapy, vision restoration, and curing neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes tumors to grow on nerve pathways
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Jenny R. Yang is the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs for the U.S. Department of Labor in the Biden administration. Yang previously served as Commissioner, Vice Chair, and Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the Obama administration. As a
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Sam Bankman-Fried is an American-born investor and entrepreneur. He is the founder of FTX, a cryptocurrency futures exchange based out of Hong Kong. He also founded the digital currency trading firm Alameda Research. In 2021, leading business publication Forbes estimated that Bankman-Fried has a net worth of at least
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Chalkbeat is a left-of-center nonprofit media organization that is focused on local reporting on education issues in the United States. Since 2020, the organization has embraced critical race theory-inspired “antiracist” activism and regularly reports on the use of critical race theory in teaching and efforts to bar it from public
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Antha Williams is a left-of-center activist who directs the environment program at the Bloomberg Family Foundation (Bloomberg Philanthropies). In her role with the foundation, Williams has directed programs aimed at eliminating all U.S. coal plants, promoting policies that would reduce personal transportation options, and preventing fishing and exploration in
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Robert Smith is a billionaire American businessman, financier, and philanthropist who amassed his fortune as the founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners. As of April 2021, Smith was the wealthiest Black American, with a net worth of $6 billion.
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The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) is a left-of-center Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) advocacy fund and grantmaking organization that conducts outreach campaigns to generate support for left-leaning causes among AAPI communities. 1
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Fund II Foundation is the grantmaking foundation associated with Robert F. Smith, the billionaire founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners who has become the wealthiest African American in the country. The foundation’s mandate is to fund organizations that preserve African-American culture, combat human rights violations, promote outdoor education,
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Accountability Lab is a nonprofit organization that works to expose governmental and aid sector corruption in developing countries. Blair Glencorse, the founder and executive director of Accountability Lab, is associated with the left-of-center groups Echoing Green and Americans for Informed Democracy.
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Beth Kobliner is an author, commentator and journalist focused primarily on personal finance. She has written two New York Times bestselling books,1 is a philanthropist through her family foundation,
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Barbara A. Stiefel is the heiress of the Stiefel Medicinal Soap Co. fortune, a major donor to left-of-center politicians and organizations,1 and
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Bradley Gayton is the former general counsel for the Coca-Cola corporation. In 2021, Gayton abruptly resigned from the position after creating controversial diversity policies regarding outside law firms hired by the company.
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The Prison Fellowship (also known as Prison Fellowship Ministries or PFM) is a nonpartisan, Christian organization that advocates for criminal justice reform. PFM advocates for a restorative approach to criminal justice, which includes federal and state policies that support proportional punishment, constructive prison culture, and second chances at employment and
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EcoHealth Alliance is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that focuses on understanding the emergence and spread of infectious diseases around the world. Initially a nonprofit organization that focused on wildlife conservation, it re-branded in 2010 to study infectious disease.
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Gwynne Wilcox is a union-side labor lawyer who is a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), having been nominated by President Joe Biden. She is a former partner at the law firm of Levy Ratner. Career Gwynne Wilcox earned a BA from Syracuse University and a
